Can there be a way to connect with someone, here and now, despite a language barrier? For Steven Bird and Robyn Perry, founders of the Treasure Language Storytelling (TLS) initiative, storytelling in original languages is a possible answer.

In my free time I volunteer for an online media called Global Voices. It’s a network of journalists, writers, bloggers, translators, human rights and free speech advocates who write and translate about what happens in the world, especially what we rarely hear about in the mainstream media.

In France, we have a Far West too. That’s where Astérix comes from: Brittany. But today’s story is real. The new Astérix hails from Quimper and was 5 months old at the time of writing. Of course he has no idea about what is going on yet. He is called Fañch, the Breton equivalent of the French François. Because of… Continue reading "France: The Case of the Forbidden Letter"